anchor watch
Example Sentences
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And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had offered to take the anchor watch.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
A kind of anchor watch had been chosen by straws.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
No one was in sight, save the dark figures of the midshipman and the anchor watch, far aft on the quarter-deck.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Patchin, Frank Gee
Already they had mopped up the anchor watch and some of the crew who had climbed from the forecastle.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
